The US military tested the 'invisible' camouflage suit for snipers

The camouflage suit called "Ghillie" allows snipers to mix with the terrain around them.

The US military is in the process of testing many new special camouflage outfits designed for snipers to approach the target, while blending perfectly with the surrounding environment. The new improved Ghillie system (IGS) will bring significant advantages over the old system, and still ensure that snipers wearing them look like other "vegetable" guys from another world.

During World War I, Scottish snipers brought what they called a Ghillie suit to disguise themselves on the battlefield. Designed to completely change the shape of the wearer, make them look like a big bush, "Ghillie" (Scottish slang for the word "man" ) is inspired by the clothes worn by Scottish rangers. to catch the poachers.

American sniper wearing Ghillie.

PopularMechanics page said, although these clothes look extremely comfortable, with a lot of heaving cloths, patches on the shirt, and looking over it seems soft, but wearing them is not funny at all. John Plaster, author of The Ultimate Sniper, described "Ghillie" as "hot, bulky, heavy - extremely heavy if wet" . He also said the Ghillie wearers suffered "heat to breathlessness from many layers of thick burlap" and recommended drinking plenty of water to avoid heat exhaustion when wearing this camouflage suit.

Ghillie suits also endanger the wearer in many different ways. Plaster describes them as "an old Christmas tree waiting for a fire", and tells the story that a sniper wearing this suit caught fire just a few seconds after a spark came from a fruit smoke grenade.

Currently, the US military is testing a new camouflage suit to solve the above problems. The military has selected 3 candidates for the new Ghillie system, and follows the PEO Soldies program, laboratory tests and in fact the battlefield will begin in November. The military will find out. whether the suit helps reduce the possibility of being detected by night vision devices, its noise level on the battlefield, and how it is water / fire resistant. The military wants a material with a lower probability of burning than a canvas without melting.

Do you see the sniper guy?

This new suit will solve heat and heavy problems by using lightweight, breathable, designed fabrics that allow body heat to escape. The new Ghillie system will have a mass of no more than 2.27kg and be worn by the US military as a military uniform, including pants, jackets, gloves, masks . Soldiers can wear all or part.

IGS will be limited to testing on the battlefield this spring. The army will buy about 3,500 Ghillie suits to equip every active sniper.

In the future, the US Army wants Ghillie to help prevent the wearer from being detected by night vision goggles and become "gecko, as a camouflage cloth using nano-color cloth" and "disguise". continuous multidirectional page " more.